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Session 136  Poster Abstracts
Factors Associated with Breastfeeding Transmission
Tuesday, 1 - 4 pm
Poster Hall
      767 Virologic Compartmentalization between Blood and Breast Milk: Left and Right Breast Function as a Single Immunologic Compartment
Susan Conway*1, J Y Park1, W Decker1, L Heath2, K Semrau3, L Kuhn4, C Kankasa5, M Sinkala6, J Mullins2, and G Aldrovandi1
1Children's Hosp Los Angeles, CA, US; 2Univ of Washington, Seattle, US; 3Boston Univ, MA, US; 4Columbia Univ Mailman Sch of Publ Hlth, New York, NY, US; 5Univ Teaching Hosp, Univ of Zambia, Lusaka; and 6Ministry of Hlth, Lusaka, Zambia
      768 Maternal HLA Homozygosity and Mother-Child HLA Concordance Increase Vertical HIV-1 Transmission Risk via Breast Milk
Romel D. Mackelprang*1, G John-Stewart1, M Carrington2, B Richardson1, D Mboi-Ngacha3, J Mabuka3, S Rowland-Jones4, D Wamalwa3, B Lohman-Payne3, and C Farquhar1
1Univ of Washington, Seattle, US; 2NCI-Frederick, MD, US; 3Univ of Nairobi, Kenya; and 4Univ of Oxford, UK
      769

Low and Undetectable Breast Milk Interleukin-7 Concentrations Are Associated with Reduced Risk of Postnatal HIV Transmission
Jan Walter*1, L Kuhn1, M Ghosh2, C Kankasa3, K Semrau4, M Sinkala5, M Mwiya3, D Thea4, and G Aldrovandi2
1Columbia Univ Mailman Sch of Publ Hlth, New York, NY, US; 2Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, US; 3Univ Teaching Hosp, Lusaka, Zambia; 4Boston Univ, MA, US; and 5Lusaka District Hlth Mgmt Team, Zambia